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March 16, 1895 (vol. 5, iss. 118)
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VOL. V. No. 118.
MAYS ANT) INGIIAHAM
RECEIVE FIRST AND SECOND
HONORS IN ORATORY.
FFORTS OF A HIGH STANDARD
OF EXCELLE-NCE.
'The Contesting Speakers and Their
Orations-The Judges Markings-
Honors Awarded by Regent Bar-
bour.
The Chicago Almni medal ani $7
in money firtbelir in tie oratrial
contet for 'iCr belong to ZJ. AIay,
Tian law, of Emporia. ham,., a11( his
iternuate to IowiCOuy is F. L. Ingra-
ham, 'tilla1w, et Aza-liaiMih., wiho
ween the seionilhonor'tarcashre of
$50. Tlogh he diiis1000of the Jdges
last iight was in hatlonty with that
of the andienee the viloy of Messrs.
Mays and IngrahIvai,-i not an easy
one, as lhe j0dges arinJgs so.
T['le orator scst a high staidard for
futurei contests There were no irek
or awkward pauses in delivery and1(
each producitioni gate eidene of the
nmost careful preartinl.
Mr. Mays was the last speaker, but
hie held flhe close atentioni of the audi
fee throughout his oratin In speak-
ign his subject, 'tnteriiatioalissss"
lie said in part that arbitration is be-
coning the rle tmng the- lation of
the world. It is stpplantiig war a a
anethod of settling disputes. Natios
have learned that idisaster should nt
ha given their aid, ht that peaceful
mthods sionld revail. Thestetker
traced. the history of the relations ex-
isting amion fanilie, tribe- and na-
tios islowng that as kindret I-
vistns of the peoplek of the earth e-
camn stronger cnparatvely they
enlarge their bundiries by war ad
.onqulest. As inatiois grow more civil-
ized they become mre like brothers
Mr Inroaim's oration was on "The
Glasses or the Commoners." In di
cussing this lhe said;
"The history of a ntion is ciely
,doteriined by "the cliaracteristis of
the musses of its people, characr-
istics which statesmen ai neither de-
stroy nor create. The spirituality of
the Jew and the ieality of the Greek
gleansed forth irrespective of the aid
,r opposition of leadrs. The English-
icns love of persoal liberty, tIher-
t-,d frees th barbaric Saxon, rose
superior to Nornman, Tudor and Stuart,
'and is still the safeguard of freedom
In every Englih-spaking nation.
Leaders lead. The people follow. Flut
at any time thr are inaiy would-be
- leders, eas with a pla; and it is in
chosing which plan to follow that the
peopie exercise their suprenacy. The
- fodr is the mneals by which the pe-
pecry out tim work they desire to
mooiphsh.
"Volce of propiecy spak in in-
:spIrngtnsot a ne erawhni ni
-lahr shall eI. disgac; whn Ohio
glamor which the noding plum the